3351From John Adams to Alexander Hamilton, 4 September 1798 (Adams Papers)
I have received your favour of the 22d. of August recommending Col Toussard to be Inspector of Artillery. I have no Reason to suspect that your entire Confidence in his Honor and Fidelity is misplaced.—But as his native Country is France and his Speech betrays his original, I am very Apprehensive that in a French War, neither the Army nor the People, would be without their Jealousies and...
3352From John Adams to James McHenry, 4 September 1798 (Adams Papers)
I received your Favour of Aug 29 last night. I have recd nothing from the Secretary of State respecting the Castle which ought to be accepted, and the Convicts removed as soon as possible and a respectable officer and Garrison appointed. I perceive that Tousard is coming here I know not why, nor wherefore? General Hamilton recommends him to be Inspector of Artillery. I have no Reason to...
3353From John Adams to Timothy Pickering, 4 September 1798 (Adams Papers)
I return you Mr. Adams’s letters No 121, 122, 123 & one not numbered, dated June 5 together with Mr. Pitcairns of June 1st. I agree with you in opinion concerning Mr. Adams idea of a contingent stipulation with Sweeden, respecting neutral ships, neutralising the goods on board, & if the heads of department agree with us, you may send an instruction to that purpose. I have the honor to be Sir...
3354From John Adams to John Steele, 4 September 1798 (Adams Papers)
I have received your favor of Aug 29th inclosing the resolutions & addresses of Bladen county in N Carolina. A more excellent address has not appeared. A few words in answer I return to you with the address, that you may publish them in the papers if you please. The election of Mr. Henderson is very honorable to him and his constituents. If the inveterate phalanx should be broken our country...
3355From John Adams to Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 4 September 1798 (Adams Papers)
I return the blank commission signed with the name of Elijah Brigham inserted, according to the advices in my letter to you of the 29 Ult. I have the honor to be &c MHi : Adams Family Papers, Letterbooks.
3356To Alexander Hamilton from John Adams, 4 September 1798 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your favour of the 22d. of August recommending Col Toussard to be Inspector of Artillery. I have no Reason to suspect that your entire Confidence in his Honor and Fidelity is misplaced. But as his native Country is France and his Speech betrays his original, I am very apprehensive that in a French War, neither the Army nor the People, would be without their Jealousies and...
3357From John Adams to Nc., Citizens of Bladen County, 3 September 1798 (Adams Papers)
I have received your unanimous resolutions and address of the 10th of Aug, with all the pride & pleasure, which sentiments so just, expressed in a style so dignified & manly, ought to inspire. Every sensible & impartial man in the world, must see & feel with you, that furthur tameness on our part, could not fail to encourage grosser outrages, & must at length sink us in our own esteem. MHi :...
3358From John Adams to James McHenry, 3 September 1798 (Adams Papers)
I pray you to put on the list of captains of infantry, Mr. Philip Church of New-York, who is very handsomely recommended by Gen. Hamilton, & whom from a personal accquaintance with him, I believe to be well qualified. I enclose to you also a letter & documents from his Excellency Governor Jackson of Georgia, which I pray you to consider, and answer according to those arrangements, which you...
3359From John Adams to Timothy Pickering, 3 September 1798 (Adams Papers)
Inclosed is a letter from a Mr William England, with a commission to him from the Grand master of Malta. If you think it worth while & there is no competitor, whose merits are superior, you may send him a commission as consul, or wait till he can be nominated to the Senate, as you judge best. Inclosed also is a letter from Mr. Malcom, & another from Mr. Peter Kemble, recommending his brother...
3360From John Adams to John Rutledge, 3 September 1798 (Adams Papers)
I have received your favor of the 23d of August & have the pleasure to inform you that I have this morning signed a commission for Capt. Cross. Your brother Mr. States Rutledge shall have my vote for a midshipman on board any Frigate he chooses, in which there is a vacancy & I believe there is one or more vacancies in all of them. And I pray you to write to Mr. Stoddert, the Secy of the navy &...
3361From John Adams to Benjamin Stoddert, 3 September 1798 (Adams Papers)
I have received your favor of the 27th of Aug. & return the commission for Captain George Cross signed, and I pray you to make out a commission for Capt. Patrick Fletcher, one day earlier. I am happy a convoy has been ordered for the trade of the Havanna. & am Sir / your most obedient &c. MHi : Adams Family Papers, Letterbooks.
3362From John Adams to Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 3 September 1798 (Adams Papers)
I have received your favor of the 27 of Aug. & return the commission for Mr Thomas Davis signed by your humble servant MHi : Adams Family Papers, Letterbooks.
3363To Alexander Hamilton from John Adams, [3 September] 1798 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received the Letter you did me the Honor to write me on the 24. of August: but not till the first of September: otherwise it would have been answered sooner. Mr Phillip Church, your Nephew whom you recommend to be a Captain of Infantry I have had the Pleasure to See, both in New York and Philadelphia, and have been so well Satisfied with all I know of him as to be very willing to...
3364From John Adams to Alexander Nelson, 1 September 1798 (Adams Papers)
A Dangerous sickness in my Family must be my Apology to you and to many others of my fellow Citizens, for the Delay of my Answers to their favours. Your Resolutions of the fourth of July have been presented to me and received with Gratitude and respect. Your Approbation of the Administration of the Government and the Conduct of its Envoys; and your firm Determination to Support, in all...
3365From John Adams to Arthur St. Clair, 1 September 1798 (Adams Papers)
I received but two or three days ago your favor of the 30th of July, inclosing an address of the officers & privates of a troop of horse, organised & equipped at Cincinnati. I perceive with joy & pride a spirit of patriotism & a degree of unanimity prevailing in our country, which annuente numine cannot fail to insure its safety & secure its prosperity. I thank you, Sir, for the obliging part...
3366From John Adams to Cincinnati Troop of Horse, 31 August 1798 (Adams Papers)
I had last night the pleasure to receive the Letter your Excellency did me the Honor to write me on the twenty first of this Month inclosing the Resolutions of the Senate and Assembly of New York and their unanimous Address. I can scarcely imagine any Event that could do me more honor or give me greater Satisfaction. The Unanimity of New York, of vast importance in the Union, is an happy Omen...
3367From John Adams to New York Legislature, 31 August 1798 (Adams Papers)
I have received In a Letter written at your request by his Excellency John Jay the Governor of the State of New York, your unanimous Address. If an Address of So much Dignity, and Wisdom Authority could have received any Addition from the Channell of Conveyance, you have chosen that which is nearest to my heart, in his Excellency John Jay the Governor of the State of New York, of whose Purity...
3368From John Adams to Benjamin Stoddert, 31 August 1798 (Adams Papers)
I received last night the letter you did me the honor to write on the 25th. I had before received those of 30. 31 of July & 3d August & notwithstanding the heat of the weather my own ill health and the dangerous sickness of Mrs. Adams, I should not have failed to answer them, if I had perceived any thing in them to disapprove, or thought of any thing to improve your plans. I am equally well...
3369From John Adams to Benjamin Stoddert, 30 August 1798 (Adams Papers)
Inclosed are letters From Judge Law of Connecticut & Capt Hinman recommending Capt Richard Law jun. to be a Capt in the navy & commander of the armed ship now building at Middleton or any other that shall be thought proper. You will of course put these letters on file & the name of the candidate on the list. I have / the honor to be Sir your most humble servant MHi : Adams Family Papers,...
3370From John Adams to Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 30 August 1798 (Adams Papers)
Please to write to Gen. Lincoln authorizing him to furnish me money out of the appropriation for my salary, while I remain here. I intended to have asked you for such a letter & brought it with me, but you was necessarily absent in Conntt. You may limit him to any sum you think proper; but I shall have occasion for all my salary while I remain here I am &c MHi : Adams Family Papers, Letterbooks.
3371From John Adams to John Jay, 30 August 1798 (Adams Papers)
I had last night the pleasure to receive the letter your Excellency did me the honor to write me on the 21st of this month inclosing the resolutions of the Senate & assembly of New York & their unanimous address. I can scarcely imagine any event that could do me more honor or give me greater satisfaction. The unanimity of New–York, of vast importance in the union, is an happy omen of success...
3372To John Jay from John Adams, 30 August 1798 (Jay Papers)
I had last night the pleasure to receive the letter your Excellency did me the honor to write me on the 21 st of this month inclosing the resolutions of the Senate & Assembly of New-York, & their unanimous address. I can scarcely imagine any event that could do me more honor or give me greater satisfaction. The unanimity of New York, of vast importance in the union, is a happy omen of success...
3373From John Adams to Pa., Militia of Lancaster, 29 August 1798 (Adams Papers)
I receive with pleasure the offer of your services & have directed the Secy. at War to send commissions to your officers MHi : Adams Family Papers, Letterbooks.
3374From John Adams to James McHenry, 29 August 1798 (Adams Papers)
I have received your letter of Aug 20th I believe tho the 0 is obscure. Gen. Knox is gone to the eastward as I understand, to return in ten or fifteen days. But if he were in Boston, I could not send him either your official or private letter, as neither contain sentiments that I can approve. My opinion is & always has been clear, that as the law now stands, the order of nomination or of...
3375From John Adams to Timothy Pickering, 29 August 1798 (Adams Papers)
I return to you my answer to the volunteer corps of the Infantry at Lancaster. I pray you to communicate this to Mr. McHenry that he may send the commissions. I am &c. MHi : Adams Family Papers, Letterbooks.
3376From John Adams to Benjamin Stoddert, 29 August 1798 (Adams Papers)
Inclosed are Recommendations of John Cruft to be a Lieutenant in the Navy. He was mate of the ship, in which I returned from Europe in 1788 and he has Spent part of a Day with me here this month. From my own Knowledge of him I request your Attention to him in the first List of nominations. I am Sir with great regard / yours DNA : RG 45--Naval Records Collection.
3377From John Adams to John Stoughton, 29 August 1798 (Adams Papers)
I have received the letter you did me the honor to write me on the 28th & am very sorry to find inform you that upon a more particular examination of the law, it appears that the president is authorized to grant permits in two cases only, viz: when a vessell shall be employed in any purpose of political or national intercourse, and to aid the departure of French persons with their goods &...
3378From John Adams to Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 29 August 1798 (Adams Papers)
The inclosed letters will shew you the reason for appointing Elijah Brigham Esqr of Westborough to be a commissioner & I pray you to procure a commission to be sent me to sign. MHi : Adams Family Papers, Letterbooks.
3379From John Adams to Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 29 August 1798 (Adams Papers)
I received last night your favor of the 22d. Inclosed is the commission to Mr. Woolsey Burton signed. Can you tell me any news of Mr. Brisler my steward & the rest of my Family left at Philadelphia. I am &c. MHi : Adams Family Papers, Letterbooks.
3380From John Adams to James McHenry, 28 August 1798 (Adams Papers)
Inclosed is a Letter from His Excellency John Henry, Govonor of Maryland, dated in Council Annapolis Aug. 19th. I transmit it to you, with my request that you would Answer it, with all the respect that is due to the subject and the Authority by which the Application is made, according to that Arrangement for national Defence, which has been or may be adopted in your Office, in the faithful and...
3381From John Adams to Samuel B. Malcom, 28 August 1798 (Adams Papers)
I know not whether it is consistent with your views and plans to continue longer with me if I should have occasion. It was my intention to have communicated to you in Philadelphia that having communicated a Nephew a Nephew Mr. Wm. S. Shaw about to graduate at college this summer, I had long ago determined to take him into my family as my private Secretary. He is now with me & I shall in future...
3382From John Adams to Nehemiah Fales, 28 August 1798 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for the obliging Address you agreed on at the Supream Court in Dedham on the twenty third of this Month, and transmitted to me, through the Chief Justice of the State. It is not possible for a Grand Jury of honest and Sensible Men, to fullfill the Duties assigned them by the Laws of the Land, without reflecting on the inestimable Value of those Laws, and the distinction as well as...
3383From John Adams to Daniel Davis, 27 August 1798 (Adams Papers)
Inclosed is a petition of Pardon Smith for a pardon of a very serious crime. I must refer the matter to you & request you to inclose the papers to the Secy. of State & Attorney Gen. for their consideration. If they & you agree in advising me to pardon the criminal, I may perhaps do it, but not otherwise I am Sir / your humble Servant MHi : Adams Family Papers, Letterbooks.
3384From John Adams to Cherokee Nation, 27 August 1798 (Adams Papers)
I some time since appointed and commissioned three of my beloved men, viz. Alfred Moore, George Walton, and John Steele, to negotiate with you, for the attainment of certain objects by treaty, which I considered indispensable to the preservation of the happiness and welfare of my white and red children, and which, without injury to either, promised to perpetuate between them a lasting harmony....
3385From John Adams to Timothy Pickering, 25 August 1798 (Adams Papers)
I have this day received your Favors of the 18th & 20 of this month. Inclosed are the twelve permits signed. When I shall be able to attend to the addresses and other things, I know not. Mrs. Adams is extremely low and in great danger. My attention to business cannot be without distraction, while her life is so precarious, as it is in the judgement of all her friends and physicians. I hope...
3386From John Adams to James McHenry, 24 August 1798 (Adams Papers)
Inclosed is a letter from Ebenezer Stocher & votes of a company of Infantry, under the name of the Newbury Port federal volunteers, offering their services. I pray you to answer them, accepting their services and to send their officers their commissions. I am Sir / your most humble servant MHi : Adams Family Papers, Letterbooks.
3387From John Adams to Alexander Hamilton, 24 August 1798 (Adams Papers)
I have received the Letter you did me the Honor to write me on the 24. of August: but not till the first of September: other wise it would have been answered sooner. Mr Phillip Church, your Nephew whom you recommend to be a Captain of Infantry I have had the Pleasure to see, both in New York and Philadelphia, and have been so well Satisfied with all I know of him as to be very willing to...
3388From John Adams to James McHenry, 23 August 1798 (Adams Papers)
Inclosed are letters from David Hobbs, Richard Bland Lee, Wm. Mason, H. G. Otis, Lt. Gov. Gill, Thomas Seymour, John Lillie, Gen. Philemon Dickinson, James Coskey, Judge Peters, John More, Samuel Panneli late ensign requesting or recommending to offices in the army which I transmit to you that all may appear upon your books & files. MHi : Adams Family Papers, Letterbooks.
3389From John Adams to Benjamin Stoddert, 23 August 1798 (Adams Papers)
Inclosed are letters from John Jones, Samuel Rankin, Thomas Laing & recommendations of the last which I transmit to you that they may appear on your records & files & receive your consideration. MHi : Adams Family Papers, Letterbooks.
3390From John Adams to American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 23 August 1798 (Adams Papers)
As on Assembling Meeting with you, at the regular Period of your Legal Meeting established by Law, I expected nothing more than those Testimonials Expressions of your Friendship, which I have constantly received upon all such occasions as one of your Associates: this elegant Address is therefore the more agreable as it was not foreseen. coming from Gentlemen whose Fame for Science and...
3391Remission of Punishment for John Scotchlar, 22 August 1798 (Adams Papers)
Whereas John Scotchlar, late of the District of Massachusetts, Yeoman, at a Circuit Court of the United States, lately holden in and for the said District was duly convicted of larceny against the form and effect of An Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled “an Act for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States,” and by the Judgment of the same Court, the said John...
3392From John Adams to James McHenry, 21 August 1798 (Adams Papers)
I return you the duplicate talk signed & congratulate you on your recovery. I am Sir your most humble servant MHi : Adams Family Papers, Letterbooks.
3393From John Adams to Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 21 August 1798 (Adams Papers)
Col. Dawes has declined his Appointment and I have determined to appoint Thomas Davis Esqr in his place of first Commissioner. I return the Papers that you may request the secretary of State to alter the Commission if he can. It would be a very unlucky loss of time, to send a new Commission to me for signature and after that for me to return it to the secretary of State for the seal of the...
3394From John Adams to Jonathan Jackson, 20 August 1798 (Adams Papers)
I have received your favor of this day. Col Dawes has declined his appointment—if you can suggest to me a proper person to fill his place, I shall be much obliged to you. Cannot the other commissioners meet & go on till a successor can be appointed to Mr. Dawes? I know of no man so fit, but he is a freeman, & cannot be compelled to serve.—I shall be at all times glad to see you. your friend...
3395From John Adams to James McHenry, 20 August 1798 (Adams Papers)
I received on Saturday your favor of the 13th have read the papers inclosed voluminous as they are & return the commission for Col. Butler & the talk to the Indians signed. The Indians have been taught to misunderstand The advice against selling their lands to individuals, for advice against selling to the United States. I am Sir / your most obedient MHi : Adams Family Papers, Letterbooks.
3396From John Adams to Increase Sumner, 20 August 1798 (Adams Papers)
I have received the letter your Excellency did me the honor to write me, dated the 18 by mistake I presume as I am told it was written this morning. I have read all the Papers and return them. I think it will be advisable that your Excellency should communicate them to the Attorney General, of the State and the District Attorney Mr. Davis at Boston, that both those Gentlemen may write to the...
3397From John Adams to James McHenry, 18 August 1798 (Adams Papers)
Since I have been here, his Excellency the Governor of this State has enquired of me with some Anxiety to know whether the Cession of Castle Island is accepted. I referred that Act of the Legislature of this State to you or the Secretary of State to prepare an Answer of Acceptance. Will you be so good as to attend to this subject as soon as possible and forward the Acceptance to me for my...
3398From John Adams to Timothy Pickering, 18 August 1798 (Adams Papers)
Inclosed are Copies of Letters I have received from David Leonard Barnes, the District. Attorney of Rhode Island. Tho they have been sent to you before, they were to me, there are so many french Villanies committed in the Post Offices, I think it necessary to send them again that there may be one chance more of their reaching you. What can be done with these Wretches? I have the Honor to be...
3399From John Adams to Edward Pope, 18 August 1798 (Adams Papers)
On the subject of your letter it will be proper for you to write to Mr Wolcott or to Mr. Miller the Commissioner of the Customs or both, in whose Departments the Business lies.— I am, Sir with much Esteem / Your Most obedient, MHi : Adams Family Papers, Letterbooks.
3400From John Adams to John Rutledge, 18 August 1798 (Adams Papers)
I have just received your favor of 13th of August, and immediately inclosed it, with the Recommendations of Cap. George Cross to be a Captain in the Navy, to mr. Stoddert and requested him to pay a particular attention to the Subject.— I hope the air of Newport is friendly to you and Mrs Rutledge. Poor Philadelphia, Boston and Portsmouth! Five and twenty days of such heat are enough to produce...